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Two people from Buddhism & Australia, Vello Vaartnou and Marju Broder represented Australia at the UC Berkeley PNC conference that was held on 16-18 August, 2016 in Los Angeles.

The PNC was founded at the University of California, Berkeley and it encourages scholars, academic institutions, and universities to collaborate and exchange their academic resources and research expertise.

It is really wonderful, that Western Australia which is usually known for the mining boom, was represented by two people who deal with the academic aspect of Buddhism on international level. Until today, Western Australian universities do not have Buddhist studies at all.

Prof. Emeritus Lewis Lancaster from UC Berkeley was the key speaker of the first International Conference Buddhism & Australia was very satisfied with the conference, academic presentations and organizational work. He considered that it is necessary to establish connection between Perth and UC Berkeley

Already in 2012, Vello Vaartnou represented Australia at the UC Berkeley and introduced his century project, an online Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia to the international audience. Last year, Australia was represented by Marju Broder at the Berkeley PNC conference at the University of Macau, where the projects of Buddhism & Australia were discussed.

Two research papers on Buddhist history was presented at the PNC 2016 in Los Angeles this year. Vello Vaartnou research introduced Buryat Buddhist history( Samdan Tsydenov, Bidja Dandaron and the Abbot of Kumbum) and Marju Broder talked about Karl Tonisson, the father of Estonian Buddhism and his connections with Buryatia and Asian countries.

Guru mandala thanka made by Vello Vaartnou was presented to UC Berkeley and Prof. Lancaster

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The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia is an online platform for gathering, preserving, translating, publishing, and spreading the message of Buddha through, historic and contemporary texts, articles, books, videos, and photos all related to Buddhism.

Initially the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia will be in two languages – Chinese Mandarin and English. The author and the team of the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia project have a clear plan and vision to develop the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia in variety of different languages.

Our key aim is preservation; it is vital in these rapidly changing times to gather all available materials and translate and digitize them. The progression of computers and the internet poses a great danger to traditionalforms of Buddhist materials and their use by the general public, and if Buddhism does not adapt to this changing scenario, it risks being forgotten and lost. These changing times also provide new opportunities, the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia being just one example of how these changes can be skillfully used to the advantage of Buddhism.

The author and key contributor to the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia, Vello Vaartnou, has had this strong vision for many years. The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopediaidea was officially introduced to the public in the ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative) conference in Berkeley in December, 2012. The first posted entries for Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia took place in November 2012 and has since grown to 53,591 entry's.

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